JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, there are still some notable additions that raise more legal frights. The next scary moment is likely to be in the form of a torts complaint.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

Both factual and legal causation could be claimed. It does not seem particularly remote for purposes of proximate or legal causation. There is a novel comparison that could be drawn to the tort of “loss of chance” in the failure to diagnose diseases.

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ALPS

AUGUST 11, 2021

It’s to introduce you to thought leaders doing meaningful work in the well-being space within the legal profession and in the process to build and nurture a national network of well-being advocates intent on creating a culture shift within the profession. For those of you who are new to the podcast, our goal is pretty simple.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 23, 2021

This language is nearly identical to that of Clean Air Act Section 202(a), which the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v. He is the editor of Combating Climate Change with Section 115 of the Clean Air Act: Law and Policy Rationales , which includes chapters from numerous authors addressing some of the legal issues discussed in this post.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court said the laws’ provision for criminal or tort liability for advising, encouraging, or soliciting persons participating in a riot to acts of force or violence was overbroad and vague. The court also found that Mann’s lawsuit did not constitute state action and therefore dismissed the writer’s constitutional tort claim.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The Ninth Circuit was not persuaded by the plaintiff states’ argument that “precedent requires a broad, fact-intensive inquiry into whether altering an injunction is equitable, even if the legal duty underlying the injunction has disappeared.” In 2019, Ontario Court Dismissed Case Challenging Undoing of Cap and Trade Program.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

The Tenth Circuit vacated and remanded the exemptions after EPA moved for vacatur and voluntary remand, conceding that it did not analyze determinative legal questions regarding the refineries’ eligibility for the extensions. Circuit granted the motion on May 26, 2021. Renewable Fuels Association v. 21-9518 (10th Cir. Chevron Corp.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2021

In Alito’s view, the 8th Circuit “applied the correct legal standard and made a judgment call on a sensitive question.” corporations can be sued for violations of the Alien Tort Statute, the law on which the Iraqi plaintiffs were relying, at all. Alito dissented, in an opinion that was joined by Thomas and Justice Neil Gorsuch.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Massachusetts High Court Upheld Transmission Line Approval. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the Energy Facilities Siting Board’s approval of a proposal for a new underground electrical transmission line running between substations in the Towns of Sudbury and Hudson. In re Hawaiian Electric Co. , SCOT-20-0000309 (Haw.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2022

92 (1896), for example, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that a labor union could be found guilty of an intentional tort by picketing a business. Many Democrats also supported sweeping bans on protests near abortion clinics, like a law in Massachusetts that was struck down unanimously in McCullen v. In Vegelahn v.

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